Grade School Autograph Book

A list of Lorraine's favorite things. Note that Lorraine's hero is Toussaint L’Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, who she would later write an opera about. While many middle-class black families sent their children to private schools in Chicago, the Hansberry’s sent Lorraine to the South Side public school, Betsy Ross Elementary, in solidarity with the poor and working-class black community.